There’s a famous picture from the 2016 Olympics with Michael Phelps in the water swimming to the finish line and another Olympian competing against him in the next lane. The other Olympian turns his head to look at Phelps instead of continuing to look at his finish line.
This blog title also makes me think of Lot’s wife in the Bible (read Genesis Chapter 19 ) also check out my blog Salt Please.
To summarize quickly, the angels gave Lot and his wife specific instructions – Run for your lives, don’t stop and don’t look back. All Lot’s wife had to do was fix her eyes on Jesus. But she looked back and turned into a pillar of salt. Whew 😥.
Isn’t that a depiction of our own life?
We turn to the left, right and back to see what others have going.
I’m writing this, but I’m guilty myself. 🙃
We can be winning and successful in whatever field and entity we are working and then we fix our eyes on others instead of keeping them on Jesus.
The word of God reminds us in Hebrews 12:2: We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Because of the joy awaiting him, he endured the cross, disregarding its shame. Now he is seated in the place of honor beside God’s throne.
In this season we must keep our eyes on Jesus and him alone. Turning and fixating our eyes on others can led to so many other things that God didn’t intend.
As we go through this week and we encounter so many circumstances, will you make the decision to keep your eyes fixed on Jesus?
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